Quotes by Paul Beatty

Paul Beatty

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It’s so ancient.

Ancient

Art

Stuff

Contradictions make people feel off. They’ll say, “Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?”

Contradiction

Hey

People

Don’t write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that’s not changing. Let that do the work.

Trying

World

Writing

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that’s right on the tip of your tongue? You have to fold that into what you’re working on.

Fiction

Stuff

Writing

I can’t say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

Giving

Satisfaction

Writing

I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how this stuff works. I bring all that stuff to teaching now.

Groups

Stuff

Teaching

I don’t know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.

Black

Chinese

Sure Love

I don’t try to be satirical. I just try to get what’s in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.

Long

Pages

Trying

I don’t write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

Drawers

People

Writing

I forget how beautiful and calm California is. It’s not so much about the place, but also the age that I came to the place and, well, other things. New York is hard.

Beautiful

California

New York

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Basketball

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Book

Buzz

California

Capture

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Certain

Chinese

Circles

Cities

Class

Contradiction

Country

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Dad

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Distance

Doors

Drawers

Fiction

Firsts

Fortunate

Frustrated

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Fundamentals

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Germany

Girlfriend

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Good And Bad

Good Friend

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Quotes by Paul Beatty

Paul Beatty

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It’s so ancient.

Contradictions make people feel off. They’ll say, “Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?”

Don’t write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that’s not changing. Let that do the work.

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that’s right on the tip of your tongue? You have to fold that into what you’re working on.

I can’t say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how this stuff works. I bring all that stuff to teaching now.

I don’t know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.

I don’t try to be satirical. I just try to get what’s in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.

I don’t write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

I forget how beautiful and calm California is. It’s not so much about the place, but also the age that I came to the place and, well, other things. New York is hard.

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